Thanks Keef. I expect by now you'll have seen my late night strange experience, where I suddenly felt the old Restore XP Home would work. It did, and it gave me the Laser Jet which I can leave on this old, somewhat slow, HD.
Really odd that feeling. I had it once with a Broadcast Sony camera which had been in a box for moths after being dropped 20' onto concrete. 5AM, and I was getting the first pictures from stitched together main and daughter boards. Even the half silvered prism had survived even though its mounts were bent. 1/4" set screws! How the tubes survived I have no idea...but the point is, the sudden feeling that I could do it.
The file: At a quick read, it looks as though it might be called up because it's job is to let you know it can't find files. That would make sense. Anyway, I have to face facts. The XP Pro has to be bogus. It's registered, and receives updates, but who knows how much care MS are taking about old product.
Someone was selling Office 7 yesterday for $50 They showed the box on the ad, but it was copied.
Did you copy, Jim? Sounds like it wouldn't do the trick. One will look inside this OS when I have a moment.